06. Ethnographic Film in the Decolonizing Third World (1970s-80s)
Media praxis within ethnographic film restructures many of anthropology‘s founding positions. The naming of unequal relations of power, difference, and […]
08. Transatlantic Black Popular Culture: UK and US (1980s-90s)
08. Transatlantic Black Popular Culture: UK and US (1980s-90s)
In direct dialogue with the poststructuralist, deconstructive work preceding it, black independent filmmaking and criticism added an anti-essentialist politics of […]
08. Transatlantic Black Popular Culture: UK and US (1980s-90s)
In direct dialogue with the post-structuralist, deconstructive work preceding it, black independent filmmaking and criticism added an anti-essentialist politics of […]
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Gay and Proud: Well, I’m in the process of finding myself. I don’t know if I’ll ever get the chance […]
Fanon, Franz. “On violence,” re decolinization
“Decolonization, we know, is a historical process: In other words, it can only be understood, it can only find its […]
Hail Obama! Ode of the Obama Youth!
Our fearless leader will triumph! Don’t tell me the cult of the presidency doesn’t exist…
Julian, I & Mercer, K. “De Margin and De Centre” re essentialism
Hall’s argument that current shiftes demand the recognition of the “end of the innocent notion of the essential black subject” […]
Julian, I & Mercer, K. “De Margin and De Centre” re realism
In cinematic terms the challenge to documentary realism is predicated on a relational conception of representation as a practice of […]
Julien, Isaac. “Black Is, Black Ain’t” re open-endedness
Black is an open-ended identity. 255
Mercer, K.”De Margin and De Center” re diaspora perspective
“Aware that ‘there is a Third World in every First World and vice versa’ (Trinh T. Minh-ha), the diaspora perspective […]